Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
60 days in on A&E (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter IC FBGCav
- Start date
![[scooter]](/data/avatars/m/22/22287.jpg?1659477690){kind=avatar}
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I think there was another thread on it but I am too lazy to look for it.
I have watched and enjoyed the first two episodes.
All the people seem like good real choices except the teacher who appears to be almost a scripted character.
I have watched and enjoyed the first two episodes.
All the people seem like good real choices except the teacher who appears to be almost a scripted character.
I've seen the first two episodes. Seems pretty interesting.
One thing I don't understand - why are 3 of the 7 females? It seems they only have one female pod in the jail. I'm not sure how they designate all the pods in the prison, but it would suggest that there are at least 5 male pods, and only 4 guys to put in them.
One thing I don't understand - why are 3 of the 7 females? It seems they only have one female pod in the jail. I'm not sure how they designate all the pods in the prison, but it would suggest that there are at least 5 male pods, and only 4 guys to put in them.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I can't be sure but I think part of the social experiment with the girls is to see who might help out a fellow newbie.
one thing I did not understand until I got to episode 2 was the some of the regular folk had never met each other. I just assumed it was one big meeting where they got their training but now it looks like it was 3 different meetings.
I am interested enough to keep watching. The only thing that keeps my guard up that this is scripted is the teacher. I know people can be dumb in general but this guy is too much of a caricature.
Last edited by a moderator:
Beef Ravioli
Footballguy
Just saw the third episode last night. I have not caught up on the first two yet. It is very intriguing to me but for the life of me I cannot imagine why anyone would sign up for this. I wonder how much cash they get if they fulfill their 60 days?
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
IC FBGCav
Footballguy
I don't think it is scripted. They have had cameras in the jail since a TV series called Jail. I think the teacher is a complete and utter tool who has got lucky that in his life no one has put a beat down on him yet. There are too many white dudes on the block, so I think they hand picked the people to make it as safe as possible. I never known of a jail where whites are the majority and no Hispanic people.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF! TAKE YOUR MOTHER#$@&ING SHOES OFF!
IC FBGCav
Footballguy
"Driver, take me to jail."
That's the beginning of Maryum Ali's trip to a different kind of reality-TV challenge: jail. 60 Days In jail.
The Los Angeles social worker and six others with no arrest records signed up to be undercover inmates (and witnesses) for the 12-episode series on A&E, premiering with two episodes Thursday (9 ET/PT, moving to 10 on March 17). The volunteers came from different places and backgrounds, were booked on fake charges and held for 60 days in Clark County Correctional Jail in Jeffersonville, Ind.
Why did they participate? "I've always wanted to know what jail was like," Ali says. "I spent the greater part of my profession trying to prevent at-risk kids from going to jail."
Ali, the eldest daughter of boxing great Muhammad Ali, had to use an alias. And the jail, where about 500 inmates are housed before being released or going to trial, is in a town just across the Ohio River from Louisville, her father's birthplace.
"When they told me the location, I almost said, 'I'm not gonna do it.' I might have cousins in there. I have family members in Louisville," Ali says.
Dad didn't know about the show, Ali says, who was "arrested" on charges of domestic battery and intimidation with a knife. "I might watch an episode with him if I'm in Arizona standing right next to him so he knows that's not real."
Each volunteer told just two other adults about their participation in the project. Ali informed her sister and an aunt. Stay-at-home mom Barbra, 25, told her husband and her mother, who helped take care of her two young children while she was locked up.
Barbra, a stay-at-home mom and military wife, is one of the volunteers who went undercover into jail on '60 Days In.' (Photo: A&E)
"I really was looking to gain a new perspective. And try to really help this jail out, and I really wanted to help the sheriff as best I could," says Barbra, who is not using her last name and was taken into custody for fraud.
Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel, a veteran of the Indiana State Police, worked with producers to select the participants. Because he had just been elected to local office, he was interested in overhauling the Clark County Jail, which had been notorious as a source for drugs.
Noel, who had invited local news stations on raids, says he thought that if it could let the public "know what's going on behind bars, maybe it'll start clicking with people that 'that's not a place I want to go.'"
60 Days In executive producer Gregory Henry says that Noel realized the value of having real people offer their perspectives, and the idea for volunteer inmates "really rolled from there. It starts with an audacious notion of, how do you put someone who has not been arrested into a jail? And it really resonated with the reforms that he wanted to put into place and the things that he urgently wanted to know about his facility."
But how frightening was it for the participants?
"I felt nervous at the booking process," Ali says. "At booking, you really have to be this other person. You can't say anything."
And once behind bars, the noise didn't help. "Jail was not peaceful. That kind of wore me out, mentally a little bit."
But she was lucky, "I never saw violence on a level that scared me."
When she started her time, Barbra says, "I was terrified. I was absolutely petrified — the most scared I've ever been in my life." But she says the series had a big impact on her own life, which she described as having fallen into a gray area with her daily routine.
"I am seeing in colors for the first time in a long time," she says. "I am so thankful for everything I have."
Participants housed in the same unit had not met each other before entering jail, which added to the paranoia. "Oh my God, the mind games are ridiculous," Ali says.
The sheriff and the producers weren't resting easy.
"I watched these undercover participants like hawks, along with the producers," Noel says.
Henry, who explained that the show helped upgrade the jail's security system and participants were compensated, says, "I've never worked on a project where I have no control. This show is so real that it hurt. We all just had pits in our stomachs because we had, in addition to the 300 cameras, we had roughly 70 microphones. We could hear every conversation. We could hear every cell. ... You hear what you've never heard before."
That's the beginning of Maryum Ali's trip to a different kind of reality-TV challenge: jail. 60 Days In jail.
The Los Angeles social worker and six others with no arrest records signed up to be undercover inmates (and witnesses) for the 12-episode series on A&E, premiering with two episodes Thursday (9 ET/PT, moving to 10 on March 17). The volunteers came from different places and backgrounds, were booked on fake charges and held for 60 days in Clark County Correctional Jail in Jeffersonville, Ind.
Why did they participate? "I've always wanted to know what jail was like," Ali says. "I spent the greater part of my profession trying to prevent at-risk kids from going to jail."
Ali, the eldest daughter of boxing great Muhammad Ali, had to use an alias. And the jail, where about 500 inmates are housed before being released or going to trial, is in a town just across the Ohio River from Louisville, her father's birthplace.
"When they told me the location, I almost said, 'I'm not gonna do it.' I might have cousins in there. I have family members in Louisville," Ali says.
Dad didn't know about the show, Ali says, who was "arrested" on charges of domestic battery and intimidation with a knife. "I might watch an episode with him if I'm in Arizona standing right next to him so he knows that's not real."
Each volunteer told just two other adults about their participation in the project. Ali informed her sister and an aunt. Stay-at-home mom Barbra, 25, told her husband and her mother, who helped take care of her two young children while she was locked up.
"I really was looking to gain a new perspective. And try to really help this jail out, and I really wanted to help the sheriff as best I could," says Barbra, who is not using her last name and was taken into custody for fraud.
Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel, a veteran of the Indiana State Police, worked with producers to select the participants. Because he had just been elected to local office, he was interested in overhauling the Clark County Jail, which had been notorious as a source for drugs.
Noel, who had invited local news stations on raids, says he thought that if it could let the public "know what's going on behind bars, maybe it'll start clicking with people that 'that's not a place I want to go.'"
60 Days In executive producer Gregory Henry says that Noel realized the value of having real people offer their perspectives, and the idea for volunteer inmates "really rolled from there. It starts with an audacious notion of, how do you put someone who has not been arrested into a jail? And it really resonated with the reforms that he wanted to put into place and the things that he urgently wanted to know about his facility."
But how frightening was it for the participants?
"I felt nervous at the booking process," Ali says. "At booking, you really have to be this other person. You can't say anything."
And once behind bars, the noise didn't help. "Jail was not peaceful. That kind of wore me out, mentally a little bit."
But she was lucky, "I never saw violence on a level that scared me."
When she started her time, Barbra says, "I was terrified. I was absolutely petrified — the most scared I've ever been in my life." But she says the series had a big impact on her own life, which she described as having fallen into a gray area with her daily routine.
"I am seeing in colors for the first time in a long time," she says. "I am so thankful for everything I have."
Participants housed in the same unit had not met each other before entering jail, which added to the paranoia. "Oh my God, the mind games are ridiculous," Ali says.
The sheriff and the producers weren't resting easy.
"I watched these undercover participants like hawks, along with the producers," Noel says.
Henry, who explained that the show helped upgrade the jail's security system and participants were compensated, says, "I've never worked on a project where I have no control. This show is so real that it hurt. We all just had pits in our stomachs because we had, in addition to the 300 cameras, we had roughly 70 microphones. We could hear every conversation. We could hear every cell. ... You hear what you've never heard before."
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
hope you are right, but the beginning of episode 3 again leaves me wondering.
the guy who was about to land a haymaker on a sitting DiAundre missed by a good 6 inches. That was almost impossible to do with out pulling a punch
IC FBGCav
Footballguy
Last edited by a moderator:
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
yeah I am probably leaning towards slightly scripted at this point. I can't put my exact finger on it but a little too much is happening that is causing me to question. In this one episode we have
The worst pulled punch in Hollywood history
The bloody fight conveniently off camera
The marine guy saying the EXACT one word he was told in training to never say to create drama
And the teacher who continues to make all Survivor contestants look like mensa candidates.
The bloody fight conveniently off camera
The marine guy saying the EXACT one word he was told in training to never say to create drama
And the teacher who continues to make all Survivor contestants look like mensa candidates.
It could be all real but there is enough now to make one at least question it.
I don't care though, I love anything related to prisons be they scripted, semi scripted or real so I am going to keep watching.
Similar threads
